Mumbai: 14-year-old boy drowns in school swimming pool in presence of trainer
Mumbai, Jun 23: A 14-year-old boy drowned in a school swimming pool in Goregaon in Mumbai on Friday, a police official said.
The incident took place at 12:30pm at Yashodham School and the deceased has been identified as Shardul Arolkar, he said.
"A trainer was present when Shardul drowned. He is a student of Class IX in the same school. There were four trainers and the main one was coaching him at the time. He had been learning swimming for the last six months," he said.
"He was pulled out of water and rushed first to a private hospital and then to a government facility where doctors declared him dead on arrival," the official said.
An accidental death case has been registered in Dindoshi police station in Goregaon East and further probe was underway, the official informed.
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West Asia war: Vessel carrying 20,000 tonnes of LPG reaches Gujarat crossing Strait of Hormuz
Kandla (Gujarat) (PTI): A vessel carrying 20,000 metric tonnes of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) arrived at Deendayal Port Authority in Kandla in Gujarat after crossing the Strait of Hormuz amid the West Asia crisis, officials said on Sunday.
The Marshall Islands-flagged MV SYMI started its journey from Qatar and docked at the port in Kandla around 11.30 pm on Saturday after crossing the Strait of Hormuz on May 13, they added.
Since early March, 13 India-flagged vessels, comprising 12 LPG tankers and one crude oil tanker, have crossed the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway close to the coast of Oman through which roughly one-fifth of the world's energy supplies pass.
It has been severely disrupted by the conflict in West Asia that started on February 28, with the US and Israel launching joint attacks on Iran, triggering retaliatory strikes. It has resulted in one of the worst energy crisis the world has seen in recent decades.
Incidentally, at a special meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNECOSOC) on safeguarding energy and supply flows, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Parvathaneni Harish said targeting commercial shipping, endangering civilian crew and impeding freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz is "unacceptable".
On May 13, an India-flagged commercial vessel came under attack off the coast of Oman.
Omani authorities rescued all 14 crew members of the vessel sailing from Somalia, but it was not immediately known who carried out the strike.
